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This page is dedicated to giving parents resources and forums to help them understand and support their gifted students!
Bill of Rights for Gifted Children of Color
This resource helps parents and teachers understand and help bring equality to the classroom for gifted students of color. This Bill of Rights talks about issues that gifted students of color may face and how we can tear down barriers and help students navigate and overcome these challenges.
This resource can help teachers analyze students and help identify gifted children in their classes. This resource by Liz Fogarty compares and contrasts the difference between Bright and Gifted students and then goes further in-depth and discussion about the differences.
This video gives 10 myths that are commonly accepted as fact. Its important to recognize the myths and bust them!
6 Strategies for Challenging Gifted Learners
This resource can help teachers differentiate for gifted students. Gifted students may or may not be easy to pick out so having the tools ready on hand is crucial for equitable teaching.
This article explains the 8 types of curriculum. It is important to be familiar and fluent in both how your teaching and what your teaching.
One way to Differentiate Mathematical Instructions
This article explains what differentiation is, what a tiered lesson is, and ways to tier a math lesson for your gifted students. This is good to have on the back burner and to practice.
7 Differentiation Strategies for Your Classroom
This article explains 7 strategies when it comes to differentiating instruction for gifted students!
Hip Hop, Grit, and Academic Success
This is a very good video about a teacher who realizes not only does she share her culture with her students but that she can harness her student's culture and love for hip hop in order to teach them! It is an amazing video about how our culture helps makes us who we are and should be embraced!
This article highlights core strategies to teaching gifted children straight from the national gifted association.
The Gripes and Grapes of Gifted Education
This is a guided journal designed by Dr. Brian Housand to help Gifted Educators find themselves again and "Find their sparkle" as a gifted educator.
NAGC Gifted Programming Standards
The NAGC Programming Standards were developed and are now used to "provide a structure for defining benchmarks and establishing best practices." (NAGC, 2019). These standards help teachers understand the expectations and how to support their gifted students.
Acceleration: What We Do vs. What We Know
This resource gives good information about the research and evidence we have about acceleration vs. what practices are currently in place and done in schools.
SEM: Schoolwide Enrichment Model
This resource gives good information and a model for providing enrichment, modification, and curriculum differentiation.
This resource from NCDPI explains NC's AIG Programming Standards and Guidelines
Changing Busy Work into Challenge!
This is an article that gives tips and tricks to changing busy work into a quick but challenging assignment. Gifted students don't need the most problems, they just need the hardest. This article gives ways you can tweak those big busy work assignments into creative, and challenging ones.
This is an article that explains the first most difficult strategy. Gifted students do not need more work, just harder work. Instead of giving a gifted student 25 medium problems that they will whiz through, give them the hardest 5 first.
6 ways to Challenge gifted minds.
This is an article that gives 6 keys ways to challenge gifted minds. These ways include "most difficult first", pre-test volunteers", prepare to take it up, and many more.
This is a video of an AIG teacher talking about a game he developed for his gifted students. It is a game that simulates real life, peace, war, and conflict. It is a very cool video that gets the mind thinking and challenges gifted students in ways they may not usually be challenged.
Technology and Gifted Students: Bryan Housand
This article highlights the use of technology in gifted students but helps educators understand that tech alone is not enough.